Quite some time ago, I wanted to link to Helen Maurene Cooper’s work, but I was unable to find a website. So I was glad to come across her work the other day on Subjectify. Find some more information on her work here.Read more »

Heather Morton pointed out Edith Maybin’s work, noting that “part of me wants to believe that these shooters [Edith Maybin and some others] could have only been successful because they are mothers.”Read more »

I’m not sure Thomas Macker’s use of thumbnails is the best approach (look at “Gardeners and Housekeepers” to see what I mean), but there is a lot of good photography to be found on his site.Read more »

Tony Fouhse is a commercial/editorial photographer, whose personal portfolio contains quite a few interesting shots. I’m somewhat torn about “User”, though - not so much because of the photography, but because of the subject matter. I’ve lately seen a quite a few series on drug users, and I’m not sure whether turning drug users into a fine-art photography fad is going to help them too much. Needless to say, this concern applies not just to Tony’s work, but to all the other photographers who have produced similar work as well.Read more »

David Prifti’s “wet plate collodion” portraits are very nice - not because of the process, but because of what he was able to produce (I consider the process to produce a photograph as the means and the photograph as the end).Read more »

Laura Letinsky’s photos look as if they were taken right in the middle of something: People are caught in some unknown (but hinted at) act, and food in still-life settings has been eaten but not cleaned up afterwards. Find a good interview with the artist here.
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I usually don’t link to somebody’s work on Flickr, simply because I find the comments left by the ubiquitous sycophants too hard to take (“you did it!!!”, “amazing and beautfiul” [sic!], “you are in my dream”, etc. etc., almost ad infinitum), but with Jon Edwards, I don’t have much of a choice. Not everything is good - Flickr and editing usually don’t go together, but the good stuff really is very good.Read more »

Digitally layering photos of the same subject has been explored by Idris Khan or Jason Salavon, but when looking at those images - as cool as they might look at first glance - I often ask myself: And now? Having seen all the Becher water towers or Playboy centerfolds in one image, what am I to take away from it? Pep Ventosa’s The Collective Snapshot is another such set of montages, which, in the end, for might prove most lasting. Combining snapshots of famous buildings or sights, taken by different people, is a bit akin to creating some sort of collective memory. Pep Ventosa’s other work is digital, too, but mostly decorative.Read more »

Alejandra Laviada’s work sits at the intersection of photography and sculpture. I’m usually not too fond of images taken in abandoned buildings, but hers are very interesting (because they go beyond the mere depiction of the emptied space).Read more »

Should photographers tell you what to make of what you see or not? It’s an old discussion (see just one of the many examples here), and Adrian Searle adds his voice here, discussing this year’s Deutsche Börse prize nominees.Read more »

Noel Jabbour is a photographer of Palestinian descent who lives and works in Berlin, and whose projects are diverse and very interesting. I only wish the sample images were a tad bigger! (found via The Sonic Blog)Read more »